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GREENER FUTURE

In October, the government released its long-awaited 2030, according to sustainability website
Heat and Buildings Strategy, laying out how it plans to edie. This will lay the foundations for all
new domestic home heating systems
dramatically reduce carbon emissions from the UK’s 30 installed from 2035 to be fossil fuel-free.
million homes and workplaces. Here we look at some of Energy efficiency, electric heat
the key findings and responses from across industry pumps and energy storage are all
named in the strategy as key focus
areas for decarbonising domestic and
he Heat and Buildings Strategy technologies, for decarbonising two commercial buildings alike in the short
lays out a roadmap to tackle hard-to-abate sectors that account for term, as technologies that may play a
emissions in homes and a significant proportion of the nation’s larger role in the long term, such as
businesses by incentivising carbon footprint; heat for buildings green hydrogen and carbon capture
T homeowners to replace their gas alone makes up 21 per cent of annual technologies, scale up. It is worth
boilers with low carbon heating systems. national emissions. noting that the strategy only applies, in
Published following delays The strategy features headline its entirety, to England. Devolved UK
spanning the best part of a year, the commitments to bring the upfront and administrations may take a different
strategy outlines the government’s operational cost of heat pumps for approach, although many key projects
approach, in terms of timings and homes to price parity with gas boilers by and targets are UK-wide.

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